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The Rollneck Sweater Is a Style Icon, Here Are 5 To Buy Now

It's time to embrace the romantic, rugged rollneck sweater.

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The Cool Material 2025 Holiday Gift Guides
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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery
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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It
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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

It's a Jordan Christmas miracle!

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How to Give the Gift of Pappy This Year (Even If You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Bottle)

You don’t need a rare hookup to gift a piece of bourbon history.

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Review: Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot – A Game-Changer for Foot Pain and Recovery

Check out our CM product review of the hottest product in wellness right now: the Nike x Hyperice HyperBoot. Spoiler alert -- it’s a gamechanger!

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The Best Gear for Life on the Trail, According to the Couple Who Wrote the Book on It

They've explored 10,000 miles together. Here are their essentials.

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Feeling the Burn

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50
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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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If You Enjoy Playing ‘Fallout’ and ‘Doom’, You Need To Try This Underrated Video Game

I spent most of my unvaccinated days in the pandemic combing Steam for new games and, truthfully, I don’t actually remember buying Prey. What I remember is a three day binge in February 2021 and being thankful that I spent those three days immersed in an exciting suspense/survival simulator rather…

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The James Brand Cambro Tray Set is Your New Bedside Companion

It's hard to reinvent the wheel, much less make a tray exciting, but The James Brand's Cambro Tray Set may have just succeeded. Tapping Southern California-based Cambro (the traymakers of prisons and schools alike), The James Brand injected a bit of style into an otherwise blank slate to make one…

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Grand Seiko SBGW295

If you think Seiko only makes affordable timepieces, think again. This 110th anniversary commemorative Grand Seiko SBGW295's dial is about as handcrafted as a watch can get. The dial is known as “Black Urushi” which uses a delicate process that gives it a rich black coloring and is accentuated with…

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RefrigiWear’s 54 Gold Hooded Utility Jacket Will Keep You Comfy Down to -54°F

There’s nothing worse than working outside in cold, brutal conditions… except for not being able to finish the task at hand because you’re so bundled up you have no mobility. If only there was a way to stay warm without all the extra bulk. That’s where the RefrigiWear 54 Gold…

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MI-6 agent 007 James Bond is easily one of the most iconic characters in all of Hollywood, and he's mostly remained at the top of his game and His Majesty's Secret Service through 27 movies, played by 12 different actors, soon to be 13. Along with the leading men who…

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